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Susan Bradford Eppes outlines her personal views for why President Abraham Lincoln was assissinated and includes biographical elements related to her upbringing and familial lineage.
Plantation and Farm Instruction, Regulation, Record Inventory and Account Book for the use of the managers on the Estate of Philip St. Geo. Cocke: And for the better Ordering and Management of Plantation and Farm business in every particular
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This account book includes instructions for how to maintain the Belmead Plantation as well as information on how to take inventory of the plantation's assets. It includes a handwritten inventory of enslaved people on the plantation as of...
A consent form for an enslaved family to live in a house
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A consent letter for "Philis, her husband Dick, and six children Daniel, William, Dick, Martin, Seraphine, and Eusebis, enslaved people, to live near the signers.
Typed transcription of the original manuscript will of John Hollingsworth. This will contains the names of enslaved people and their children and outlines how to divide enslaved people amongst inheritors along with financial valuations.
Documentation of Bradford's business practices including those pertaining to cotton sales, the purchase of enslaved people and other business transactions.
Letter to excuse an enslaved person leaving without a permission slip
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Letter to Ms. Putnam explaining how "Peyton" was given a mistaken slip of paper instead of the pass written for them. Both the mistaken paper and the slip were sent to Ms. Putnam to better explain how this mishap could have taken place....
This manuscript by Susan B. Eppes includes a hand-drawn mockup for the book cover, the typescript with marginalia to prepare the document for editing and printing, and an introduction by the author. The body of the work reflects the...
List of enslaved people and sharecropping contract
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Present are several lists of enslaved people at Barrow Hill with names, ages, tasks, and ratings of their work performance. Another sharecropping contract dated 1868 is also present. Many land deeds and maps that may serve useful for...
Diary consists of mostly weather, quality of crops, and Roach's personal health. Within the diary there are business cards, contracts and one photo negative.
A consent form for a "free person of color" and her children to live in a house
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A consent letter for "Jane Seville" and her children "Margaret, Janeliet, Harriett, Peter, Elizabeth, and James Chandler, free people of color, to live and have their immediate place of abode near the signers.
Letter asking permission for an enslaved person to live in a separate residence
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A petition soliciting permission for "Caroline" and "Florida, enslaved people, to occupy a separate residence adjoining enslaver A. H. Cole's residence. The petition was passed.
A small notebook with Geo. Whitfield printed on the first page followed by manuscript entries. The notebook documents the financial transactions of George Whitfield around Tallahassee, Florida, including his business transactions...
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